UK government and IBM trial secure Linux
News The Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA) said this week that the initiative had been launched to assure public and private sectors that Linux could provide security in a complex environment.
[April 27, 2006, 13:05]
Government to certify security kit
News A sub-division of the Cabinet Office, called the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance Group (CSIA), is leading the scheme to certify security products and services that could be bought by the public sector.
[April 7, 2005, 17:15]
Harmonising global cybersecurity
News The CSIA seems to be looking at spyware legislation quite a bit. Earlier this month, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com caught up with Kurtz to hear his ideas on where CSIA's battle for better cybercrime legislation currently stands.
[April 15, 2005, 13:30]
Civil servants 'lack security awareness'
News A senior member of the Cabinet Office's Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA), whose remit is partly to oversee the effective transmission of data threat information between public sector organisations, admitted that the problem did...
[February 1, 2007, 13:15]
Government launches IT security kitemark
News The CSIA, the government's IT security watchdog, is recommending that the mark - CSIA Claims Tested (CCT) - should be adopted as a standard across the public sector. The government has launched a scheme it claims will ensure that off-the-shelf IT...
[September 9, 2005, 16:15]
GCHQ takes on gov't IT security training
News In the past, all government IT security training has been the charge of the Cabinet Office, through the office of the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA). CESG will develop the content for information assurance education and training...
[July 1, 2009, 12:09]
Symantec and Microsoft co-operate on security
News SafeCode is being headed up by cybersecurity expert Paul Kurtz, who was one of the founding members of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) and a former White House National Security Council and Homeland Security Council member under...
[October 23, 2007, 16:10]
Burn: NPfIT has 'failed so far'
Blog I'm finding it immensely difficult to find someone and nail down responsibility," said a member of the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA. At last month's Government UK IT Summit, Andy Burn, head of information management and...
[June 1, 2007, 17:13]
